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		<title>Haiku About Snowy Winters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since they&#8217;re seasonally appropriate for some small fraction of the world: World of black and white/Hot tailpipes and cold fingers/Winter traffic jam Barren branches sag/ice shroud in place of green leaves/snow virginal white Souls warmed with cocoa/wonderland of falling snow/third trip to shovel Frozen breaths mark time/cold penetrates five layers/eyes search for the bus Walking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=462&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku about Writing Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Q. McClintic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quest for brevity/mere seventeen syllables/struggle to fill space Amorphous language/naught but mere pencil scratches/coded imagery Filed under: haiku Tagged: haiku, poetry, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=441&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku about Love, Loss, and Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Q. McClintic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m putting these up as a set of five because they were written as such. The intent is to portray figuratively the &#8220;love cycle&#8221;&#8211;falling into, development, falling out, cynicism, and willingness to try again. Heavenly blossom/fed tender proximity/a new love is born Strong grows the sapling/blessed by fate and circumstance/love mocks the cynic By hailstorms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=438&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Thing about Manga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Q. McClintic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love most about manga is that they can take place in worlds where it is safe to consider what might be inconceivable if placed in a contemporary context or otherwise of an intensity which might be almost scary. The medical experiments of Blade of the Immortal. The vengeance quests and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=443&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku about the Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Q. McClintic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh the ocean . . . Here are three for you: Mystery abounds/steaming into the unknown/sans guide or guidance Azure ocean hues/rolling gently with the seas/slide smoothly astern Legs unaccustomed/to life ashore remember/rolls no longer felt Filed under: haiku Tagged: beauty, haiku, poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=436&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kullback Leibler Divergence and Least Squares</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may have hinted yesterday that I thought there should be ways to assess the aptness of an approximation to a model by a simpler one which is easier to implement in hardware. So much for thinking I may have had an original thought. A little Googling turned up a recent paper which uses a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=434&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hunch and a Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were talking today in class about approximating zero-pole transfer function system models (with P zeros and Q poles where P and Q are finite integers) with infinite order or in practice truncated infinite order pole-only transfer function models and then kicking those over into the time domain. In such cases, the coefficients of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=431&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back To Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that round two of fall holidays is over and my grad school classes are winding up my brain is getting back to the need to work on the thesis. Also writing haiku as I am back to being out of new material to slam. As far as the thesis goes, it&#8217;s more a question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=428&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku about Hiking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three about hiking and scenes or moments therefrom. With floppy broad brim/faithfully blocks sun and rain/now faded and freyed The tread on my feet/a rubbery second skin/bald from years of use A small outcropping/mountains tall in the distance/pastel summer sky &#160; Filed under: haiku Tagged: exercise, haiku, hiking, poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=426&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku about Slamming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the recent discussion about slamming haiku, here are a few to go with the theme. Syllabic hailstorms/assail ears with imagery&#8217;s/delicate carress Score doesn&#8217;t matter/Just five random reactions/praying for the ten* Known by their real names/the poetry support group/shows up every week** Intelligent thought/emotion in every word/passion is the key *I should note [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epsilongardener.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2828689&amp;post=424&amp;subd=epsilongardener&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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